Sunday, December 30, 2007

Christmas Pictures and more...

This is after Christmas in Show Low. It snowed the morning before we got there so we went out and bought Peyton some gloves so that he could play in it. He had a great time.

We bundled Paige up to keep her warm, it was soooo cold! And we thought she looked really cute in her new snow hat.

Our family! I love this family picture, Christmas Eve after we all opened our new pajamas.

This is just a cute picture I took of the kids practicing with my new camera.
Peyton and Paige on Christmas Eve in their new pajamas. They love each other. Peyton takes such good care of Paige.
Christmas Morning! Paige loved the ribbons and bows! Who cares about the actual presents! Gimme some paper!
Peyton's new love. This train track is set up in the living room currently and every time we walk in the front door he acts like it's Christmas all over again! He spends hours a day playing with his 'choo choo', aka 'chi cha'.


Saturday, December 15, 2007

Glimpse

I am just missing dancing right now. I feel like this is the last thing I have. It's one of the pieces that I think I am most proud of. My all time favorite piece I've ever done. You do not have to watch it, it's really just up for me so that it's not lost in nowhere land.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOFVngGTMkw

Ice Cream! YUM!!!

I got an ice cream maker for my birthday a couple days ago and today I made ice cream! I was so excited! So Peyton and I sat down to eat it and Peyton of course dripped it on the table not paying attention to what he was doing. When he realized that he had spilled, I guess he didn't want to waste any or it was just that good, he started licking it off the table! I was so funny I ran and got my camera and here he is cleaning up! (the ice cream WAS that good!)

Thursday, December 13, 2007

New Hobbies

This is my latest hobby. Since being called to Humanitarian specialist in my ward I have had a great interest in quilting. So far I have made Paige two blankets. This first one has ribbon all around the edges that are supposed to be like tags. Paige loves tags. This is one of her Christmas presents.



This is one I made just after she was born because I wanted her to have something very girly.

Sunday, December 9, 2007

We got Elfed!

Check this out, we made total elfs of ourselves!
http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1272711548

Saturday, December 8, 2007

Peyton doing Impressions

Peyton's favorite movie is 'Cars'. So we watch it alot. Here he is doing his impressions of the characters in the bathtub with Paige.

Sunday, December 2, 2007

Picture Post!

Okay! Are you ready for this?! This is a super post! These are some pictures I took from the past couple of weeks of some of the events that took place! Buckle up, here we go!

This is Paige smiling! I try to capture these moments as often as possible just because. Oh yeah, and I wanted to get a picture of her teeth, they're so cute!


This is a picture that Peyton took of Paige outside while playing. He is quite the photographer these days. Look how he also captured the basketball hoop in the back, he's such an artist.

This is Paige sitting up all by herself! She is doing really good but still falls over sometimes. I took some video of her sitting up but they are only a few seconds long because she just didn't want to perform for the camera that day, I at least got some snapshots.


Mommy and Peyton decided to make some cookies one night. Peyton loved to help by stirring the ingrediants, and dipping the cookie balls into sprinkles, and he ate alot of sprinkles. I'm not sure how much actually got on the cookies, but needless to say we are out of sprinkles now. Earlier that night I was making dinner and Peyton was just rummaging around the pantry. Then he came running over to the silverware drawer, grabbed a spoon and ran back to the pantry. A couple minutes later I went to check on him and he was dipping his spoon into the sugar container and eating it! You know that commercial where it says "Would you let your kids do this?" and they are doing that very thing! It was very funny, I laughed so hard, so he started laughing, but then did not understand why I made him stop.
Here is the final product, Peyton wanted to take the picture.
This is Peyton this morning in Paige's play saucer. He somehow got into it and was pretending to be a baby the way Paige plays with it.
And here are the kids just playing together on the floor. This reminds me of a picture I took when Paige was first born, Peyton is looking at her that same way.

My car was so dirty, it hasn't been washed in weeks, maybe months. So Peyton and I washed the car since the weather was soooo nice last week. We had a good time and Peyton got soaked.
This is kind of dark, but this is Peyton watching cartoons at Jamie and Lauren's house on Thanksgiving. We had a good time eating and talking with the big family together minus Jon and Becky's family. Peyton had such a good time with his cousins, they played together the whole time.
One night last week Peyton was being very quiet and I asked Josh what he was doing and he said he was just playing. So I went to check to see what he was playing and he had a whole bag of powdered sugar in a big pile on the couch and he's got it all over his face and hands and he's sucking on his fingers. Powdered sugar makes a really paste when wet. Later we found another big pile of it on the floor. I thought it was so funny, Josh didn't so much.
And finally Peyton and I decorated the Christmas tree last week. I handed him ornaments and he did a really good job at hanging them. He could only reach the bottom third of the tree so I did the rest, but it looks great. We've got all of our decorations out now and our furniture is arranged so that everything fits into the living room. We did most of Christmas shopping already, the kids are pretty much done, we just have a few things to get still, but we are so excited for Christmas this year. I think more than any other year. We've been watching Christmas movies and singing Christmas songs before bedtime. Peyton's favorite songs are Rudolph, Santa's coming to town, and Jingle Bells. He loves it when I laugh sing Jingle Bells ("...laughing all the way. hahaha.") Can't wait for Christmas. I love this time of year.




Thursday, November 15, 2007

Jewel Concert Last Night

Yep went to the Jewel concert last night thanks to Kellan. When she invited me I though, "Sure, why not?" I didn't know of any recent music from her that I liked. When she came out with Intuition I was so turned off by her new style. I was just looking forward to going out without the kids for a girls night. Her dad introduced her and it was very sweet. She came out and without saying a word she started singing Over the Rainbow. It was beautiful and she really has an incredible voice. She sang old songs, new songs, her dad even got up and sang a couple of songs he wrote, they sang together and even yodled. It was so neat. She told stories and jokes and it was just so enjoyable. She really interacted with the audience, she took requests and played some of my old favorites. I was reminded of how much I love her music and now I want to buy all her music! So anyway it was neat to see her be real and normal and I guess what I'm trying to say is I had a great time!

Thursday, November 1, 2007

Halloween!

This is trick or treating the Saturday before Halloween. The ward had a halloween party at the park in our neighborhood. This was Peyton's first time trick or treating and he really didn't get it at first but after a few tries he understood that people were giving him candy and then he liked it alot. He was a dinosaur for Halloween and a very cute one! Here is one of the few times Peyton had his hood on. Paige was a ballerina.

After a fun and busy night, both boys crashed watching a dinosaur movie on Disney.
This is the night before Halloween carving Peyton's pumpkin. After I drew the face on the pumpkin Peyton took off towards his room and came back with his pumpkin bucket which had the exact same face, we thought it was very clever of him.





Trick or treating at James and Stephanie's house.








Here are pictures of my newly painted kitchen cupboards. It took me a month to finally finish them and I still have some touch ups I need to do. But I love them now, they are majorly updated now. Now I just wish that I had all black appliances, everything is white now!










I also did both bathrooms in the house, this is our master bathroom.

And here's Peyton playing the piano today, I just thought it was cute.








Friday, October 26, 2007

First solids

Here is Paige eating her first solids. She didn't really take to the spoon very quickly like Peyton did, she really just wants to play with it. But she is doing better with it.

Peyton was making Paige laugh so hard I ran and tried to catch it on camera. I love it when Peyton entertains Paige. And her laugh makes me laugh so hard! (video taken 10/20/07)

Birthday pictures


It was so funny when I brought Peyton his cake so we could sing to him and blow out candles. I lit the candles and before we started singing Peyton blew out the candles! It was funny and he wanted to do it over and over again so I re-lit them about 4 times.
He loves this dinosaur, he tucks it in bed with him every night and calls it 'Rah'.


Thursday, October 25, 2007

Peyton's Birthday Weekend

Pictures are coming soon! But I thought I would tell you all about Peyton's birthday now. I love having birthdays on the weekend because then it feels like you're celebrating the whole weekend. First of all I can't believe that here we are celebrating his birthday again. He's 2! But so much has happened in the past year that it seems like he should be older too! So anyway, the build up to Peyton's birthday was so exciting for me and Josh, it was like it was our birthday and we were 5! He has no idea what's going on and here we are acting like children. But finally the Friday before his birthday comes and Josh took the day off so we could go to the zoo together. Josh and I had a great time seeing the animals and we saw so many more animals awake and moving around this time it was really neat. But it was a good thing we didn't have to buy a ticket for Peyton because he almost couldn't have cared less about the animals. He was being very defiant. We would say "Peyton, do you want to see the monkeys?!" "No!" would be his answer. The only animals he really liked seeing were the elephants and the orangutans (which are my favorite too). Josh had to go on a camporee for scouts that night which was kind of a bummer but it's kind of nice too! I love having the whole bed to myself and I finished painting our kitchen cupboards too. (I've been painting all of the cabinets in our house for the past month.)
So Sunday comes, which was Peyton's actual birthday, and we skipped church because we were having most of Josh's family and my whole family over. I really love being with both my families and I always enjoy all the action that goes on with everybody together. Peyton was definitely loving all the attention and showing his terrible two side as well. He got some neat gifts and he loves all of them. He plays with his new toys all day. And he loves having new movies to watch and new books to read at bedtime.
And since he turned 2, we decided to once and for all finally just throw away his pacifiers. Yes, he has been attached to his pacifier this long. We always said that when he turned 1 we would take it away, but it was hard, and I was weak, Then we got him down to only having it at bedtime, then Paige was born and I got weak again. So Monday we threw them all away and hoped for the best. And it's actually going really well! I can't believe I waited this long! The only times when he has asked for it is when he wakes up from a nap or first thing in the morning. He digs around his sheets for it, it's kind of cute and kind of sad. I just tell him that it's not here and he forgets about it. He is such a good boy.
So that's his birthday story. If you read this far, thanks. I could probobly talk about my children all day. I am very proud of them. We are lucky to have our family.

Saturday, October 20, 2007

Snuggling

Here is a video of the kids playing and snuggling in Paige's crib. Peyton loves to get in there with her and snuggle under a blanket.

Monday, October 15, 2007

Happy Paige

So here is Paige today while changing a diaper. She was very happy and eating her toes so I wanted to catch that on camera before she stopped. Peyton popped in a few times but didn't stay for very long each time. He was being very silly.

Monday, October 1, 2007

Paige's Blessing Dress

Here are pictures of Paige in her beautiful blessing dress. My mom made it and a matching bonnet and booties to match. She looks so beautiful in it and she loves to suck her thumb and hold on to the dress.